Republicans have trouble grasping Romney's defeat

10:19 PM,
Nov. 27, 2012

Written by

Gene
LYONS

Even as professional Republicans hasten to turn Mitt Romney into an unmentionable nonentity like George W. Bush, journalists are fanning out into the hinterlands like anthropologists to study the impact of President Obama's re-election upon the GOP candidate's dedicated supporters.

The Washington Post's Eli Saslow profiled a Romney campaign worker in Hendersonville, Tenn., struggling to contain her disappointment ("GOP's Red America forced to rethink what it knows about the country," The Washington Post, Nov. 11).